Test 2 · ★ · Music practice and ball games
A girl in Ohio leaves her school cello in the car on a hot summer day. What could happen?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: leave, happen · To what, where: school cello, car
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 246 «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: A girl in Ohio leaves her school cello in the car on a hot summer day.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ohio | case |
| 4 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cello | nmod:poss |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cello | compound |
| 8 | cello | cello | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 car | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 car | det |
| 11 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 14 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 day | amod |
| 15 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 day | compound |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leaves | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | a girl in Ohio | girl's school cello | the car | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cello=Theme in car=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: What could happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | could | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Nothing at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The wood could crack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wood | det |
| 2 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crack | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 crack | aux |
| 4 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | could | the wood | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
The strings would tighten into tune
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 strings | det |
| 2 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tighten | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tighten | aux |
| 4 | tighten | tighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 tune | case |
| 6 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tighten | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tighten | would | the strings | tune | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
It would sound better
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sound | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sound | aux |
| 3 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 sound | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | would | It | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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